Atkins: Break Up Compliance Office

NEW YORK - Breaking up the investigative logjam at the Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations may take dismantling the office itself, said SEC Commissioner Paul S. Atkins Wednesday.

"It is incumbent upon us to constantly reexamine our own structure," said Atkins, who delivered the keynote address at the Practising Law Institute's "Coping with Broker/Dealer Regulation and Enforcement" seminar.